From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: EMACS development team <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: emacs-27 efd4e97: Reflect the emacs-devel ELPA/MELPA dispute in FAQ
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 14:19:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO2hHWaXfawX_uq6jmETTZd2MW7dFtW9mDdFcLWdqf6FqdQw7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zha7b8d3.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 7:31 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 23:09:15 +0300
> >
> > On 16.05.2020 10:32, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > @@ -3479,7 +3479,10 @@ There are other, non-GNU, Emacs Lisp package
> servers, including:
> > > @uref{https://marmalade-repo.org, Marmalade}. To use additional
> >
> > Should we also remove the mention of Marmalade altogether?
>
> I don't have an opinion about this. We should probably ask users. [...]
>
IMHO, we should remove the mention of Marmalade.
Marmalade is unsupported enough that it causes security warnings due to its
certificate having expired. Attempting to visit the web page will generate
various scary error messages in basically every browser (including eww),
and the EmacsWiki page on it has this to say:
Marmalade <https://marmalade-repo.org/> was an ELPA
> <https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ELPA> compatible package repository that
> allowed users to upload their own packages. Package maintainers did not
> have to be the same as the maintainers of the original code. This is
> somewhat like major GNU/Linux distributions.
>
The repository had availability problems and is now discontinued.
>
Hope that helps,
~Chad
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2020-05-16 20:09 ` emacs-27 efd4e97: Reflect the emacs-devel ELPA/MELPA dispute in FAQ Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 21:19 ` chad [this message]
2020-05-17 3:53 ` Adam Porter
2020-05-17 21:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
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